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Original Rolling Stones to rock Old Capitol

Sherry Lucas, The Clarion-Ledger, January 20, 2015


Hits such as “Johnny Valentine” secured a spot in history for Andy Anderson and the Rolling Stones.



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Two members of the Original Rolling Stones, Joe Tubb (left) and Andy Anderson, practice at Anderson's home in Clinton for their upcoming performance Thursday at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson.
(Photo: Rick Guy/The Clarion-Ledger)



Mississippi’s most historic rock ’n’ roll band amps it up in Mississippi’s most historic building on Thursday. They promise not to blow out the walls.

“Go, Cap’ Go! An Evening with Andy Anderson and the Original Rolling Stones” brings a concert of classics and memories to the Old Capitol Museum. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with the show starting around 6 p.m.

Anderson, singer and rhythm guitarist, and Joe Tubb, lead guitarist, sat back on couches in Anderson’s Clinton living room, fingering the strings and recalling a heyday that stretched back to college days in the mid-1950s.

They’ve still got the songs, sure. Now, closing in on 80, they’ve got lots more stories.

The music itself is timeless, driven by the irresistible beat always at the heart of its appeal. Back then it was a pioneering sound, generated by Fender lead guitars, electric bass, drums and keyboards. “You can play rock ’n’ roll with all that,” Anderson said of the energetic sound that yanked folks onto their feet and kept them there.

The legacy of Andy Anderson and the Rolling Stones, predating that British rock band by years, is set in history and halls of fame, including the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the book, “Memoirs of the Original Rolling Stone,” by Anderson and Erika Celeste. “We were the first rock ’n’ roll band in Mississippi.

“We had an attitude, too. We went into a place with full intent of creating a riot,” Anderson said, with the steady drives of covers and original hits such as “Tough, Tough, Tough.” They played college graduations, pep rallies, fraternity parties around the country. “Well, these guys, they hired us because they wanted to blow the walls out.”

“Our generation was a generation of dancers,” Tubb noted. “And we played music, you could get the beat and get to it.”

The Thursday show will be a nostalgic nod to those roots with their music, plus excerpts from peers (early Elvis, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis) and stories. The ticketed event at the Old Capitol is an annual after-hours event for community fun, “something out of the ordinary,” museum director Lauren Miller said, with a rock concert in the House of Representatives Chamber. Dance floor available? She laughed. “Maybe a little bit.”

Tubb, promising “a bunch of practicing between now and then,” cradled a Fender Jazzmaster worn in all the right places. The crook of his elbow covered the spot where the tail end of “Rolling” is all that’s left from that word. He held out an index finger, crooked from a lifetime of holding a guitar pick. They’ll catch up with the original bass player “Cuz” Covington and harp man Bill “B.C.” Carlin to round out the band for the gig.

Tubb recalled their invitation some years back to play for a Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame event. He and Anderson bump into each other some but of the band, “Golly, I haven’t seen some of ’em in 40 years.” But he called around; they rallied for the show at the Hilton. Original fans rallied, too, “standing in chairs, hollering like they used to.”

He relished, too, the tale of their bass player’s old Peavey amp that conked out right before the show. “Hartley Peavey (Peavey Electronics founder) was being inducted into the Hall of Fame that night and so, here it is, all these people here, and Hartley’s down on his hands and knees on the stage, in the back of that amplifier and he fixed that thing! And then got inducted into the Hall of Fame.”

It also opened up a spate of playing 50th high school reunions. “The first one we did, we wondered the next morning, how many times could those girls get up?” Tubb said. “They danced their hearts out.”

Their rollicking shows sparked listeners’ ears in rock ’n’ roll’s earliest days. The band’s hit “Johnny Valentine,” with Anderson on lead vocals and studio musicians on backup and background (London Records’ Felsted label), was the first rock ’n’ roll record distributed worldwide, according to Rockabilly Hall of Fame’s website. Both versions of “Johnny Valentine” (Sam Phillips was too broke to release Sun Records’ first recording of it, with the whole band, in the late 1950s) became hits.

The band’s “You Shake-a Me Up” and “The Way She Smiled” on a 45, picked up by the New York label Apollo became one of few songs to score a triple run, “Pick Hit of the Week” in Cashbox, Billboard and Music Reporter in the same week.

The Rolling Stones got its start at Mississippi State University where the undergrads cut their musical chops in dorm jam sessions, and took that sound on the road. Anderson and Tubb laugh now at the contrast between the shows and the drives, night after night, booked solid during the Christmas holidays with exams just up ahead.

“There was no raising Cain or anything in the car. You had to be quiet. We had a civil engineer for a drummer and an aeronautical engineer for a keyboard player,” Anderson said.

Unlike the shows, with fans packed in like sardines and fevered with fun. “If the fire marshal ever came, we’d have never been out of jail,” Tubb said.

Their rock ’n’ roll, secured in history, landed a sentimental spot in fans’ memories and more.

Roy Estess, the Rolling Stones’ original keyboard player in college, went on to lead Stennis Space Center in the 1990s. Tubb remembered his retirement party with “astronauts from everywhere,” and then Estess’ funeral in 2010. There, Estess’ oldest son gathered his former bandmates and took them up front to the open casket.

“He reached in his coat pocket and brought out — where he got it, I don’t know — a brand new copy of ‘Johnny Valentine,’ which was our best record. He said, ‘Would you guys autograph this for my daddy?’

“Oh God, you talk about tears. We nearly came apart.” They all signed it and Tubb placed it on Estess’ chest. He went into the ground with the record next to his heart.

To contact Sherry Lucas, email [email protected] or call (601) 961-7283. Follow @SherryLucas1 on Twitter.


If you go

What: “Go Cap’ Go: An Evening with Andy Anderson and the Original Rolling Stones”

When: Thursday, doors open at 5:30 p.m,., show at 6 p.m.

Where: Old Capitol Museum, State Street at Capitol Street, downtown Jackson

Cost: $40 includes show, beer or wine, heavy hors d’oeuvres and jukebox hits

Contact: (601) 576-6902


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Re: Original Rolling Stones to rock Old Capitol
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They've been playing the same old fucking warhorses for decades!

Saying that, probably worth checking them out. After all, they wont be around forever and this may be the last time, etc....
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Those guys from Mississippi may not actually be the original Stones:



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“What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there,” he says. “All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.” - Keef
 
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“What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there,” he says. “All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.” - Keef
 
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Reply #4 - Jan 22nd, 2015 at 1:13pm
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What a bunch of horse crap...

I just went onto Ticketmaster and its all sold out. StubHub wants $1000 for the cheap seats
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